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I came from a background of using a gas grill all my life and a horizontal offset charcoal smoker for the last 7 years. In some ways I find the temperature control as good or better than the gas grill over a far wider range of temps. The longest I used to go on my smoker was 1-2 hours before I had to go play with the vents. My first brisket on the Egg went 10 hours and I made one and only one tweak about an hour before finishing. I'd opened the lid and the temperature was 5 degrees low when it recovered. It was so stable I kept running outside to check that my Maverick ET-73 remote read thermo hadn't lost synch. But yes it was that stable.

You are gonna love this grill. I am already planning on my second Egg right after Christmas.

You'll be cooking a brisket in no time. It took me ~6 months to get the nerves to try one. It came out amazing. I had allot of growing pains with the egg coming from a Weber gasser (That I have used twice in 7 months since getting the Egg). The support here is awesome and will help you through any type of cook.

Welcome to the Family!! I got my egg in June and have been welcomed so warmly. I was learning from scratch and did a brisket after about 1 month. It was quite the experience but turned out very tasty!! There is a large thread about it that has many laughs, good luck this weekend on your first cooks, and don't forget the pics.

Welcome to the Family!! I got my egg in June and have been welcomed so warmly. I was learning from scratch and did a brisket after about 1 month. It was quite the experience but turned out very tasty!! There is a large thread about it that has many laughs, good luck this weekend on your first cooks, and don't forget the pics.

Welcome momoz !!! I always laugh when someone is referred to as a newbie. Practically everybody who buys an Egg has had years and years experiences on gassers, offset smokers, and other kinds of outdoor cooking. The main learning task with the Egg is temperature control, and it looks like you've got a bead on that.

So, jump right in. I'm sure you have some recipes that we haven't thought of yet. Pictures, please !

BTW, congratulations! You have been flagged as a troll by our resident elementary school troll himself. So now, you are considered as a full fledged forum member.

Welcome! Enjoy the forum and ignore the troll flags. Not all of us are like that. Hopefully those flags will go away since they are being greatly abused by a select few.

I like you. You spent a lot of time going through every post I made to flag me. I'm special. Thanks for using your time to do that. That had to take a longtime. I should know. I love the attention. Thanks for continuing to play. ) ) ) ) )